Community | December 25, 2009 | 20 comments

LA homeless benefit from knockoff seizures

source: http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14067624

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In the season of giving, authorities have come up with a way to help the homeless through items they have confiscated: Hand out about 10,000 pairs of counterfeit athletic shoes.

The shoes, which include knockoff Nike and Adidas sneakers minus the labels, were seized for trademark infringement by the Los Angeles Police Department's anti-piracy unit.

The LAPD, working in conjunction with the Los Angeles city attorney's office, plans to distribute sneakers Monday to 1,800 residents at the Union Rescue Mission downtown. Several winter homeless shelters in Culver City, Glendale, downtown and West Los Angeles will also receive shoes.

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_14067624
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20 comments // LA homeless benefit from knockoff seizures

  • kstein
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      kstein  

    • This is great give them shoes. The LAPD is the Best! how much money and manhours were spent on the top priorty fake shoes? $$$$$$1800 homeless residents at 1 mission. sad how very sad. how long will those shoes last with no socks. what do they do with the rest of the confiscated items? sad, how far is LA from Beverly hills, Hollywood, rich suburbs? for having the richest people living there you do have way to many homeless. I just cant see this as being enough. nice but nowhere near enough

    • 2 years ago
  • JonRaymond
  • treewolf39
  • Retrograde_Photography
  • ahappymintleaf
  • JonRaymond
  • growdude420
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      growdude420  
    • JonRaymond:

      While some of them could be employable with a little effort, a good many are borderline mental cases who aren't quite crazy enough to qualify for disability benefits, but are simply unemployable.

      Many are also drug and alcohol addicted. They would need to recieve expensive rehabilitaion to be able to work, but rehab generally costs at least a few thousand dollars.

      Try getting someone to hire you when you have nowhere to shower, no clean clothes, and couldn't pass a drug test if someone paid you. Your argument refuses to address the problems that contribute to homelessness, and you only demonstrate your ignorance by making such a comment.

    • 2 years ago
  • iamfree
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      iamfree  
    • JonRaymond:

      seriously thats your response to homeless people being helped during the holidays?...why cant you understand that the world isnt so black n white?...hopefully you dont find yourself in a similar situation or else you might find out 1st hand why these people cant find employment.

    • 2 years ago
  • iamfree
  • RaceBannon
  • JonRaymond
  • sergantonio
  • Found_Avenue
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      Found_Avenue  

    • This is a PHENOMENAL idea. I hope and pray it makes it's way to NYC.

      Strange, though, that article was removed from the LA Times site...?

    • 2 years ago
  • TravG73
  • MotherForTruth
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      MotherForTruth  

    • Great idea. But it appears that LA Times decided this is not a good idea as they took down this article. Homelessness is one of the measures of society's ills and media censorship or lack of coverage is another.

    • 2 years ago
  • spacemikey
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  

    • That sure beats putting them in a garbage dump. I have been homeless it sux in ways that most people will never know. The only good thing about being homeless is that you geta set to yourself on the bus and most soup kitchens feed pretty good. Other than that it sux all the way around.

    • 2 years ago
  • nanac
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      nanac  
    • bailey78:

      I am glad that you are no longer homeless...It breaks my heart to see anyone without shelter and the basic necessities of life..When ever I see homeless people on the street, I give them money to brighten their day..If I am near a fast food restaurant or convent store, I will buy them something to drink and to eat..You can thank Ronald Regan, for his policies directly contributed to the homelessness of Americans..

    • 2 years ago
  • keithponder
  • nanac
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